El Drumpfo is now the GOoPers' problem

El Drumpfo has announced for 2024, but it's quite clear that this time Jabba the Hutt is not paying attention to the chain that could easily be wrapped around his neck. El Drumpfo has been demoted from being the humanity's problem and America's problem, to being the GOoPers' problem, and I'm here for it. The RepubliCon elites keep saying "no more Trump" and "it's time to move on," but it really seems A LOT like a decisive chunk of the base isn't listening. I suspect he will be the nominee in 2024. Gee I wonder who would win, El Drumpfo or Biden.

Sure the current GOP will continue to run the board in places like Idaho, and Wyoming, and Mississippi, and probably Florida. But nationally, the party attached itself to El Drumpfo at the nutsack, and it's really hard for me to see how they win elections with him, or without him, unless he actually finally does one bump of meth too many, or eats one cheeseburger too many, and finally does the one duty he can't delay by abusing the courts. This dye was cast in 2016 when they all got in line like good little toadies, afraid that the Orange One would say mean things about them. Since then, it was ALWAYS going to end like this. Cowardly ending for a bunch of cowards, and that's just how it is. The schadenfreude is going to be amazing.

Wake Up to 2022!

Good morning!

If you care about "having a democracy" I hope you are fully aware of where things stand right now. I think Joe Biden is a decent person, but his approvals are in the tank, currently. If the GOoPers take the House and Senate this fall, they have made it abundantly clear that: A GOP Congress Will Never Certify a Democratic Presidential Victory, No Matter How Obviously They Win. The RepubliCons will achieve this through gerrymandering, voter suppression, willful re-imagining of constitutional norms, and their long-term packing of the Supreme Court, which is essentially a finished product.

Do you want to know how a 2024 election with a GOP-led Congress will play out? Watch what happens down in Georgia when Stacey Adams appears to win the Governorship this November. I'd put down my life savings that their over-the-cliff GOP state legislature will "having something to say about that," from the the statehouse. This is it friends. We could very seriously have one-party rule in this country, even if that party is clearly a minority. Are the Democrats perfect? Absolutely not. But we have a much bigger fish to fry in 2022. If you want to know how amazing one-party rule is - check out how well having the PRI in charge for 71 years worked for the good people of Mexico.

Here's a group of folks at Fair Fight - Georgia, who are doing the thing, down in Georgia - right now. They need your support now, not just in October.

It's ON in 2022.

Happy New Year! It's 2022, an election year, and one of my intentions for this new year is to make sure I DON'T wind up thinking to myself, this November: "I should have done more to maintain democracy."

Beyond partisan politics, representative democracy is on the ballot. One party wants to make it easier to vote, while the other wants to make it harder, while giving state legislatures the right to overturn voters' decisions by lying about voting fraud. 2020 was just a dry-run / dress rehearsal. They're authoritarians, and they want govern at will, even though they are likely a permanent minority. I'm not here to argue the politics. If you disagree with me, you can disregard this post and move along. If you agree with me, I ask you to dig in deep this year.

I have a hard job that takes a lot of off-the-clock time, and a toddler, so I can't always volunteer for organizations or campaigns, but what I CAN do, is donate. So I started today with a monthly recurring donation to BLOC - the Black Leaders Organizing Committee. This grass-roots organization based in Milwaukee, WI, that does good work there, to educate and register voters, as well as issue advocacy. This was one group of many that helped bring Wisconsin home in 2020. You get more bang for your buck giving to these types of organizations, as opposed to candidates or political parties, and these groups need the money NOW, not just in late October. By then it's often too late.

Friends we have an uphill climb in 2022, but maintaining or building majorities in Congress would act as a bulwark against Trump-cultists and far-right Evangelical authoritarians further entrenching themselves and making up the law as they go along. Give money if you can. Give time if you got it. Spread the word if that's all you can do. But we need to dig deeply his coming year. Everything is on the line.

Remembrance of a Year Ago

This time a year ago was the worst of times, with no "best of times" to go with it. COVID cases were at an all-time high here in Illinois, the vaccine was still more or less a rumor on the winds of some day, El Drumpfo and his army of orc-people cult-devotees were going ape-shit all over social media with paranoid delusions of stolen votes, even while none of the "evidence" that was ever presented was of the "will stand up in court" variety, as they lost case after case after case; the insurrection of 1-6-21 was already being presaged by its organizers and the Regime as they called for a protest that would be quote "wild" unquote . . . things were decidedly very Not Good here in the USofA during the agonizingly long Election process, through the Holidays and thereafter. I have been remembering sleepless nights, doomscrolling, etc. At least it got me feeling creativish.

November 29th, 2020

You can have your own home. You can have your own business. You can have your own friends, and lovers, and interests. But you may not have your own reality. Sorry. Nope. Reality has to be shared with others.

So, on a day, when the whole world says: "The sky is blue today," you DON'T get to just get to come back with: "Nyuh uh - it's orange. And what is blue? And what is orange anyway? Can ANYONE really tell the difference between blue and orange nowadays anymore? Who's to say what is blue, and what is orange?" You can *try* to play little games with people's heads, and *try* to sow doubt as to the blueness and orangeness of things. You may even really believe that that blue-appearing sky over your head is somehow in fact orange. But at the end of the day, blue is blue. And orange is orange, and they don't much care either way about human head games you might play.

Whew.

IT'S A GIANT PLOT INVOLVING DEAD HUGO CHAVEZ AND MILLIONS OF FRAUDULENT VOTES BEING CAST. THEY ARE JUST SO CLEVER AND INTELLIGENT AND INGENIUS THAT EVEN THOUGH MILLIONS OF FRAUDLENT VOTES ARE INVOLVED IN AN INTERNATIONAL GLOBALIST CONSPIRACY WITH THOUSANDS OF PLAYERS, THERE JUST HAPPENS TO BE ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT WILL ACTUALLY STAND UP IN A COURT OF LAW! ahem . . .

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For some strange reason, *shrugs,* the above did not work on the American people . . . this time. (Though it definitely worked with an alarming number of Republicans). With Michigan certified in glorious anticlimax, Pennsylvania essentially a done deal, and that insane person at the GSA finally convinced . . . outrageously, and despicably two weeks late . . . to do the *only* part of her job that matters . . . Election 2020 is finally over.** This has been true since the Tulsa Rally, but from here on out it's all fizzles, and no bangs.

We are stuck with right wing terrorism regardless. That was always going to be the case. I worry that some of it may have metastasized into something a little more "organized." A lot of disparate far-right connections have been made over the last few years. They are mostly dumb, but there are always one or two who may have some smarts, and savvy. If they find a communicator who can half-way seem "reasonable" to more suburban or even urban voters, and less like a guy who's on meth, we'll be right back where we started, and the lower brush has been cleared for a more successful coup or autogolpe.

But THIS roller coaster is sliding in to the station, for now, folks. The Transition of power will begin in earnest, the Trumpies will slowly dissolve out of the White House, and an imperfect, but earnest, and competent administration will take over, with the biggest mess any President has inherited at LEAST since the Depression. If nothing else, Biden has experience and contacts. Maybe he IS that guy for the Moment.

At the very least, we can rest assured that . . hey! (checks date) in less than two months, we will not be worried about what the sitting President of the United States is tweeting.

**98% confidence

Ha Ha "admitting defeat. . . ."

Enjoy the "He won . . . " tweet, folks. El Drumpfo will never make that mistake again. This is as close as we will ever get to admitting he lost, an accidental slip-up in the bravado of invincibility; shit-posted early in the morning. That's outrageous and terrifying in a way, but the Constitution in no way requires a concession speech. El Drumpfo will surely try to ratf**k the Biden team on the way out; they have already made that clear. But there is a competent administration coming in, and an experienced one.

Deep breaths, people. We will probably make it to Jan 20.

My friends Meaghan and Shoebocks down in Louisville had a scary incident in their neighborhood last night with an apparently high-on-meth guy running into their yard threatening to kill people, and screaming the N-word. He was chased off and disappeared and everyone's fine. But it occurred to me that THAT is what their "coup" or their "civil war" is gonna look like. Random. Sporadic. Scary and violent. But at the end of the day pointless and not signifying much. This is their "plan" for coup d'état / Civil War. It's the same plan as always: none. Same plan they had for winning this election: none; for governing: none. Their "plan" looks like marginal crazies on meth doing the sort of pointless acting out that marginal crazies on meth do. Yes, they're scary and violent - and I am quite certain some people will get hurt. Obviously I'm so glad my friends in Louisville are fine, but there there isn't some mastermind pulling all these strings. There's no plan here on other than: rely on the marginal crazies to help us overturn democracy.

Dems and the Biden people may not be as progressive as I'd like, but they do at least have a plan.

That's why I encourage my friends who are understandably VERY anxious about things like coups or civil wars, to try ramping down our OWN worst fear/ruminations. Look at what's happening on the ground right now. The Trumpies' window to somehow "cure" Election 2020 for themselves has closed. America is waking up to envision a new President soon, and a significant majority like what they see. Conservative America is mad and depressed right now, but a few of the wiser heads are already no doubt salivating at their prospects for 2022. They can try again next time.